Aug 04

HTC Rhodium spotted in Sprint ‘compatible phone’ list, Touch Pro2 definitely maybe imminent

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While AT&T, Telus and Verizon Wireless customers have long since known that HTC’s luscious Touch Pro2 was heading their way, fans of Dan Hesse have been twiddling their thumbs wondering if said handset would ever cruise along at Sprint Speed[TM]. We wouldn’t call this anything close to official confirmation, but an official Sprint portal for the outfit’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Mobile application definitely lists the HTC Rhodium as a “compatible phone” that supports full audio and video content. For those unaware, “Rhodium” is just another way of uttering “Touch Pro2.” Don’t get your hopes too high, but feel free to have a stiff drink on us.

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Aug 04

Transparent aluminum! Would that be worth somethin’ to ya, eh?

Posted in: laser, research, science, space, Today's Chili, university

It’s hard to say if boffins at Oxford University got their inspiration from Nimoy and Co., but one thing’s for sure: they aren’t joking about the creation of transparent aluminum. In what can only be described as a breakthrough for the ages, a team of mad scientists across the way have created “a completely new state of matter nobody has seen before” by blasting aluminum walls (around one-inch thick) with brief pulses of soft X-ray light, each of which is “more powerful than the output of a power plant that provides electricity to a whole city.” For approximately 40 femtoseconds, an “invisible effect” is seen, giving the gurus hope that their experiment could lead to new studies in exotic states of matter. For a taste of exactly what we mean, feel free to voice command your PC to jump past the break. Or use the keyboard, if you’re feeling quaint.

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Aug 03

The Shack: You have questions, we have propaganda

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Here are some of the memorable catchphrases you can expect from the retailer formerly known as Radio Shack’s rebranding, as caught on camera from an anonymous tipster: “The Shack is fluent in mobile. The Shack is a big hug for your mobile life. The Shack is music to your ears. The Shack is your path to wireless wisdom. The Shack helps you get it right. The Shack is like a GPS to your GPS. The Shack knows what you want to hear. The Shack is not camera-shy.” The Shack is not at war with Eastasia. The Shack has never been at war with Eastasia.

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Aug 03

Nikon Coolpix S1000pj projector-cam beams into reality along with friends

Posted in: breaking news, BreakingNews, nikon, pico projector, PicoProjector, point and shoot, PointAndShoot, projector, Today's Chili

Man, the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj has gone from crazy rumor to seemingly-real to whoa-here’s-the-press-release in record time — the compact cam with the integrated projector was just officially announced, along with the three other cams we saw leaked earlier today. Leaked specs for the S1000pj were dead-on: a 12.1 megapixel sensor with ISO 6400 sensitivity mounted behind a 5x wide-angle zoom lens with five-way VR stabilization, and that LED-powered projector that’ll put up a 40-inch image for slideshows complete with music, effects and transitions. We’re a little less excited about the $430 list price this thing will carry when it hits in September, but on the whole it’s a pretty terrific idea and we’re completely intrigued — looks like we’ll be saving our pennies this month. Pictures of everything in the gallery, deets on the other cams and a video of the S1000pj after the break.

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Aug 03

TeleNav GPS Navigator comes to T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G

Posted in: Features, gps, hands-on, HandsOn, HTC, nav, navigation, t-mobile, Today's Chili

TeleNav has already launched its subscription turn-by-turn navigation service for the G1, so it stands to reason that official myTouch 3G support would be close behind — and sure enough, the company has announced that its GPS Navigator app will be available for download to T-Mobile’s second Android device starting tomorrow, August 5. The app features all of the goodies that TeleNav users have come to know and love, including traffic and incident monitoring with automatic rerouting, gas prices, business information, and a choice between 2D and 3D maps; additionally, you’ve got automatic day / night coloration, carpool lane and tollroad avoidance, and speech recognition for destination input — a big plus when you’re on the road and you need to keep distractions to a minimum.

We’ve been playing with a cut of GPS Navigator on our myTouch recently, and it delivers a totally usable car navigation experience — a perfect complement to the comprehensive pedestrian capabilities of Google Maps. Most of the warnings from our G1-based review of the application carry over here — you need true GPS reception, not merely cellular triangulation, so your phone will need a view of the sky to have a shot at picking up satellites (this also means that getting a location lock is a more time-consuming process, though it typically didn’t take longer than a few seconds to do its thing). We’re not digging how the colored lines that convey traffic information on highways flash; we’d rather they just stayed a solid color, the way most GPS systems handle it. We also found that the menus are a little wonky — bringing your finger in contact with a menu item and swiping up or down to scroll would occasionally trigger the first item you touched, which ends up being a fairly annoying bug in practice. All told, though, if you can justify the expense, your $10 a month is going to net you a genuinely reasonable way to consolidate all of your help-me-I’m-lost needs — whether by foot or by car — into a single device.

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Aug 03

Xbox 360 Wheel Recall Due to Overheating

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This article was written on August 24, 2007 by CyberNet.

Xbox 360 racing wheelMicrosoft’s Xbox 360 has already had a rough summer. First it was the announcement that they’d be spending approximately 1 billion on Xbox 360 repairs, and now they’re faced with another issue: smoking Xbox 360 racing wheels. If you own one of Microsoft’s Wireless Racing Wheel controllers and you see smoke coming out of it, it’s not some cool effect, it’s overheating.

Priced at $129.99, the wheel is meant to give the gamer a “real experience” as the wheel “simulates all the resistance and force, immersing you in a relentless and unparalleled racing experience.” The problem with the unit overheating appears to occur when the unit is plugged into an outlet. To fix the problem, Microsoft is urging wheel owners to either call or submit a form to receive a retrofit for the Racing Wheel. It’s like a recall program where the user is responsible for getting the replacement. In the meantime while users wait for the retrofit, they can still use the wheel on battery power.

As an owner of the original Xbox, this situation reminds me of when Microsoft sent out replacement power cords because the original power cords that came with some of the consoles posed a fire hazard.

While Microsoft says that the smoking wheel has occurred in “a very small number” of incidents, it’s probably a good idea to take the time to get the retrofit. They also say that there’s been no incidences of “fire, personal injury or property damage due to the Wheel malfunction.” With Microsoft already spending $1 billion on repairs for the console itself, I’m wondering how much they’ll end up spending on the repairs for the smoking wheels? Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like the Xbox 360 is turning into a rather large expense for Microsoft. Hopefully the success of Halo 3 will make up for all the money dished out for repairs…

Have a Wheel and need a retrofit? Go here.

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Aug 03

Nikon shoots and shows with embedded projector

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As we increasingly use handheld devices as the primary way to share photos and videos, the inevitable conflict arises: how do you keep the device stylishly compact while including a display big enough for the whole gang to huddle around? Nikon’s the first–although …

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Aug 03

T-Mobile MyTouch 3G gets GPS with TeleNav

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TeleNav Navigator running on the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G.

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TeleNav announced on Monday that it will make its TeleNav GPS Navigator application available to the T-Mobile MyTouch 3G when it goes on sale on August 5. It will be the first location-based service to launch on the MyTouch 3G …

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Aug 03

Nikon goes further with S70’s touch panel

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Looks like Ashton should’ve waited a year. A refresh of the Nikon Coolpix S60, the S70 is improved in almost every way, changing a decent first effort of a touch-screen camera into something entirely usable.

Like its successor, the 12-megapixel S70 is almost entirely controlled with the …

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Aug 03

A little longer, a little wider, a lot faster: Nikon Coolpix S640

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Despite a 3x zoom probably being the best for keeping photo quality intact, it looks like a 5x optical zoom will be supplanting it as the point-and-shoot norm. Nikon’s doing its part to help that along with the 12-megapixel Coolpix S640 and S570.

Both cameras measure 0….

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